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  • The fixed-site ground-based interceptor deployment planned for Poland was politically risky and the mobile interceptor could "blunt Russian fears of possible US fixed missile-defense sites in Europe."

    Euro peace: The sounds of silence 2009

  • Thus only on extremely fertile lands, producing large crops in a very small area, could a fixed-site threshing or grinding machine be supplied with work enough to keep it going much of the year.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009

  • The major drawback of ground-based missiles in Poland is that they would be fixed-site deployments.

    U.S. Missile Shield Plans: Retreat Or Advance? 2009

  • Kitchens like Henry's Kitchen, Sisco's Kitchens which can produce tens of thousands of meals in mobile kitchens that will deliver them with emergency response vehicles, as well as fixed-site feedings.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008 2008

  • Fackler has been working with Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who in May reintroduced the National Amusement Park Ride Safety Act, H.R. 2320, to close that loophole and extend the CPSC's authority to cover fixed-site amusement park rides.

    Kathy Fackler: Working to keep amusement parks safe 2007

  • Edward J. Markey D-Mass., who in May reintroduced the National Amusement Park Ride Safety Act, H.R. 2320, to close that loophole and extend the CPSC's authority to cover fixed-site amusement park rides.

    Kathy Fackler: Working to keep amusement parks safe 2007

  • Current competitors include e-commerce Web sites such as Amazon.com, GSI Commerce and Overstock.com; auction Web sites such as eBay, Yahoo! and uBbid; governmental agencies that have set up Web sites to sell surplus and salvage items as well as traditional brick-and-mortar liquidators and fixed-site auctions.

    An IPO For The Scrap Heap 2006

  • CENTCOM officials said in a release that day that he had been providing "fixed-site security" at a bank when his unit came under attack.

    Gulf War II 2003

  • As far as he was concerned, the natives were barely a generation removed from the fixed-site creatures from which they had evolved.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • We've begun to train oil police guards, fixed-site security guards, in order to protect some of this key infrastructure.

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2003 2003

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